Word: berkeleys
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Mario Savio, a leader or Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, last night accused University of California President Clark Kerr of being an "able practitioner of managerial tyranny," who was seeking to make Berkeley a "knowledge factory...
Savio told an audience of more than 300 people at Lowell Lecture Hall that the current controversy over political freedom at Berkeley was an outgrowth of Kerr's "worldly view" of the University...
Savio said that the student protesters at Berkeley represented a "more traditional educational philosophy. We believe in a university of scholars and students," he continued, "with inquiry as its defining characteristic, and freedom as its fundamental tool...
...move backfired. A faculty committee set up by Berkeley Chancellor Edward M. Strong deplored punishing eight students among thousands, censured the administration for acting without customary hearings and due process, and criticized the vagueness of university rules governing political activity. Meeting last month, the university regents adopted recommendations made by President Clark Kerr. They rescinded the rules barring political recruiting on campus but insisted on the right of the university to discipline or expel any students who might be arrested in consequence of political activity...
...bond of $85,000, which a faculty group helped to guarantee. Within hours, the intransigent undergraduates, since October organized in a self-styled Free Speech Movement dominated by civil rights militants, Trotskyite groups, and members of a Communist front, called a strike on the 27,500-student campus at Berkeley. "We have promised that this university shall not run," said Savio, "and we shall keep that promise." One-third of the Berkeley faculty signed a telegram to Kerr and Strong urging amnesty for the four students who face punishment, and 5,000 students staged a rally outside Sproul Hall...